Industrial Strategy: Local Growth

Lord Fowler Excerpts

Monday 26th April 2021 Lords Chamber

[Lord Callanan (Con)]

I agree with the noble Lord that productivity will be key to our success going forward. He and I come from part of the UK that needs to expand its productivity and key to that will be developing the skills agenda, which I set out in the previous answer.

[The Lord Speaker (Lord Fowler)]

My Lords, all supplementary questions have been asked—a compliment to the Minister, who consistently manages to answer them all in the time allotted.

Audit and Corporate Governance

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Tuesday 23rd March 2021 Lords Chamber

[Lord Callanan (Con)]

My noble friend makes an interesting point. Although this White Paper does not include proposals on trading in companies’ shares, the listings review of the noble Lord, Lord Hill, does include some recommendations, including making it easier for private growth companies to make the jump to a public listing.

[The Lord Speaker (Lord Fowler)]

My Lords, all supplementary questions have been asked. That brings Question Time to an end.

Climate Change Committee: Carbon Budget Report

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Tuesday 16th March 2021 Lords Chamber

[The Lord Speaker (Lord Fowler)]

My Lords, all supplementary questions have been asked. We therefore come to the second Oral Question.

Offshore Gas Rigs

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Thursday 11th March 2021 Lords Chamber

[Lord Callanan (Con)]

We do encourage companies to capture as much of it as possible and, as the noble Baroness said, put it to good use on the platforms or pipe it to shore and use it, where possible, in domestic gas transmissions. The Government’s 10-point plan for a green industrial revolution, announced in 2020, stated our ambition to capture 10 megatonnes of carbon dioxide a year by 2030—the equivalent of 4 million cars worth. Where possible, we can use it; if not, we can store it safely underground.

[The Lord Speaker (Lord Fowler)]

My Lords, all supplementary questions have been asked. We now move, therefore, to the fourth Oral Question.

Hospitality Sector Minister

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Wednesday 3rd February 2021 Lords Chamber

[Lord Callanan (Con) [V]]

My noble friend makes a very powerful point. My ministerial colleague, Minister Scully, is closely working with the sector to hear its concerns. He has had a number of meetings with the sector—if that is not right I will correct that for my noble friend—to listen to concerns, hear about plans for reopening and do whatever we can to work with it in this extremely difficult and challenging time.

[The Lord Speaker (Lord Fowler)]

My Lords, all supplementary questions have been asked, and we now come to the third Oral Question.

Workers’ Rights

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Tuesday 26th January 2021 Lords Chamber

[The Lord Speaker (Lord Fowler)]

My Lords, all supplementary questions have been asked, which brings Question Time to an end.

Covid-19: Night-time Economy

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Tuesday 26th January 2021 Lords Chamber

[Lord Callanan (Con)]

The noble Lord is tempting me to stray into matters beyond my brief. I know that considerable research is going on, from funding provided by the DHSC, to ascertain the precise impacts of the virus on different communities. The noble Lord is entirely right that the night-economy time is vital to the black community. Within the night-time economy, the hospitality sector alone employs around 2 million people, with 7% more BAME employees than the UK average of 12%. As I outlined earlier, we have taken steps to try to preserve as many of these jobs as possible.

[The Lord Speaker (Lord Fowler)]

My Lords, all supplementary questions have been asked, and we now move to the third Oral Question.

Covid-19: Small Businesses

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Wednesday 13th January 2021 Lords Chamber

[Lord Callanan (Con)]

The noble Lord makes a vital point. I and my ministerial colleagues regularly having meetings with all the various business representative organisations to ensure that the support we are able to give is carefully tailored, targeted and available to as many different businesses as possible.

[The Lord Speaker (Lord Fowler)]

My Lords, all supplementary questions have, again, been asked, and that brings Question Time to an end.

Covid-19: Vaccine Trials

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Wednesday 13th January 2021 Lords Chamber

[Lord Callanan (Con)]

My noble friend makes some important points. We are indeed working closely with health experts to provide information and advice at every possible opportunity to all communities across the country. The NIHR launched a public campaign to raise awareness among people from BAME back- grounds, partnering with British comedian Omid Djalili, alongside Whoopi Goldberg, Sanjeev Bhaskar and other leaders, who can offer examples to the community of how important it is to take part in research and receive the vaccines when they are available.

[The Lord Speaker (Lord Fowler)]

My Lords, the time allowed for this Question has elapsed. I underline the point made by the Leader, that questions should be kept short and confined to two points. It is unfair to everybody else if that rule is not followed. We now go on to the second Oral Question.

Agreement on Climate Change, Trade and Sustainability

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Monday 11th January 2021 Lords Chamber

[Lord Grimstone of Boscobel (Con)]

My Lords, absolutely; I am happy to give that assurance on these important areas. We certainly did not see that an advantage of leaving the European Union would be that we could lower standards in these areas.

[The Lord Speaker (Lord Fowler)]

My Lords, all supplementary questions have been asked. We now come to the second Oral Question.